Plus remember these are Receivers - Transmiters. They can also pick up distorted cell-phones (I've heard pieces of convo's to put it together) - animals sounds out side the transmiters side of the house/window - if the window is slightly cracked opened to allow air-flow ... then you have a whole spectrum of natural noises that can be picked up.

Granted, they do pick up lots of extraneous noises. But does that really explain these experiences?

When we were living in Utah, a DJ there was EXTREMELY disturbed one morning because the night before she had heard a man's voice on her baby monitor saying "Frederica... Frederica" from her baby's nursery while the baby was sleeping in her crib. She went racing into the room to check and found no one in the room.

The strange part about this was that her daughter's name was Frederica, which is a pretty unusual name. She was desperate for a logical explanation because it spooked her and because ghosts ran counter to her religious beliefs. Many people called in to share equally strange experiences, which made her not feel so alone but did nothing to ease her mind.

There are more things in heaven and earth, and all that jazz.

Without trying to sound strange...couples...word of caution...turn off the transmitter before engaging in any...er...future baby making lest your neigbors know all about it.... /ohmy.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':huh:' />

Plus remember these are Receivers - Transmiters. They can also pick up distorted cell-phones (I've heard pieces of convo's to put it together) - animals sounds out side the transmiters side of the house/window - if the window is slightly cracked opened to allow air-flow ... then you have a whole spectrum of natural noises that can be picked up.

I have not heard a single noise besides my little girl on that monitor since I posted my experience.

nypdretired: no kidding!

Baby Monitor Time Warp

BY SHERI N.

As usual, the long work day was coming to an end and I was dutifully putting the last load of laundered clothes away in our bedroom when I heard a ruckus on the baby monitor just a few feet away from me. I thought it strange when I knew my husband and toddler were both in the living room quietly watching TV as my two-year-old drifted silently off to sleep curled in my husband's lap as he caught the evening news. The bedroom door was straight in front of me and I could see all the way down the hall to my husband and son in the Lazyboy chair as this ruckus over the monitor continued.

It didn't take long for me to realize the sounds were very familiar. Earlier in the day, I was in my toddler's bedroom putting a load of folded clothes into the drawers and picked up some stray toys and books that weren't being played with at the time. As I was doing so, I was telling my son about the story of "Jack and The Beanstalk" for the first time.

Now I stood in disbelief as I heard the drawers being pulled open and shut and rustling of the toys and books being put into their proper places. But I nearly fainted when I heard my son's voice over the monitor! I kept looking back and forth at my husband and now-sleeping son in the chair in the living room and the monitor sitting on my dresser that was literally replaying the specific events from earlier in the day!

The monitor is a standard baby monitor bought from Wal-mart and is NOT a recorder, but instead monitors the sounds coming from the room as they are happening at present time only. I listened as my voice retold the story of "Jack and The Beanstalk" and listened with familiarity as my son responded in baby-talk to the tail he had never heard before. The incredible part was this all happened five hours earlier on the same day!

I quickly called my husband into the room as he listened to the last part of the story with my voice coming through the monitor and our sons coos and chuckles. He stood stunned and turned his head and looked at our sleeping son flopped peacefully over his shoulder. In disbelief, he asked, "How in the hell...?!" as his voice drifted off trying not to miss a thing. I just stared at him in the same disbelief and we both just shook our heads.

This has never happened before or since and became pretty clear from the beginning that we were listening to some kind of warp in time. I never imagined in a million years that I would be witness to it and must admit, if it should happen to you, it is indeed, one of the most incredible moments one can ever experience!

One day we had them both off - (during the day) - but we forgot to turn the Receiver off. Suddenly we were hearing some talking on one of the channels and a child playing on the other channel.

I recognized the voices talking. My neighbor's son. He was playing outisde with his walkie-talkie, with a friend. The children playing after some time realized it was another neighbor who has two little granddaughters playing in their room.

A couple of days later I mentioned to the neighbor that we could hear their daughters playing in the room on our monitor. He just laughed and said, "Ya, we hear you telling your oldest granddaughter to get back in bed at night time."

After some investigation - found out these monitors are very sensitive, one person apparently was hearing police communications - other's TV and RADIO. Another uses it to find out if he has Bees in the wall, successfully.

The longest distances that seemed to measured is up to 1 Mile and better depending on the sending signal strength.

Sometimes things happen, and there truly are no explanations for them.

Ruby is a cutie.

Welcome to PUG. Glad to have you here with us.

Agree,and this thing is strange,and a little terrifying. /ohmy.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

I'm glad my wife doesn't visit this site. Lately when she sees a baby girl, she gets this look in her eyes and just keeps telling me she wants a baby girl.

Ryan, when she gives you that look show her this pic of my daughter

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we used ALL the "girl methods" and you see how well that worked /wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

wouldnt trade him for the world though /wub.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />

It's what I call pregnancy amnesia.

I found some stuff on the monitor but other than the movement pad that it comes with. I couldn't find the frequency range for it. A lot of the low band frequencies can pick up skip from a long distance away depending on certain weather conditions. I've heard of some fire departments in Florida picking up New York City on their low band radios. Their radios will be a bit stronger but you can pick up stuff from far away.

Baby monitors are notorious for picking up outside transmissions.

There is even a documented case of a baby monitor picking up transmissions from astronauts on the space station.

I cannot say with any certainty that is what is happening in your case but if you do a little research I believe you will find a lot on what can be picked up by them. I have even known ghost hunters that were on a budget that have used them and picked up all kinds of stuff.

Pregnancy amnesia is exactly it. I could add colic amnesia too, apparently I'm ready to put myself through that again.

I completely agree with what both of you have said, I know they pick up all sorts of weird things. The only thing that doesn't make sense is that I'm positive it was my voice and my baby after bath time and before bedtime. If I hadn't heard it with my own ears I would have written it off to picking up a conversation of some sort from anywhere. My husband also heard it and is even more of a skeptic than I am. I don't know what to believe other than it's probably not going to be explained and we'll probably never know why it happened unless it happens again. I will have a recorder handy just in case so I'll have something to critique:)

Thanks again for your help in finding a cause, I really do appreciate it. I'll be sure to let you know if anything else happens!

There is even a documented case of a baby monitor picking up transmissions from astronauts on the space station.

I cannot say with any certainty that is what is happening in your case but if you do a little research I believe you will find a lot on what can be picked up by them. I have even known ghost hunters that were on a budget that have used them and picked up all kinds of stuff.

I found some stuff on the monitor but other than the movement pad that it comes with. I couldn't find the frequency range for it. A lot of the low band frequencies can pick up skip from a long distance away depending on certain weather conditions. I've heard of some fire departments in Florida picking up New York City on their low band radios. Their radios will be a bit stronger but you can pick up stuff from far away.

Can you tell the brand and model number of the baby monitor? Maybe we can look it up and see if there has been anything reported about it.

I'm glad my wife doesn't visit this site. Lately when she sees a baby girl, she gets this look in her eyes and just keeps telling me she wants a baby girl.

Sure! It's and Angelcare Bebe Sounds, model#AC201.

Baby girls are so fun. I know the look, I'm starting to feel the same way again:)